Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:69898 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 33937 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2013 14:32:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 27 Oct 2013 14:32:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=cpriest@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=cpriest@php.net; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 66.111.4.28 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: cpriest@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.111.4.28 out4-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from [66.111.4.28] ([66.111.4.28:47136] helo=out4-smtp.messagingengine.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F9/FB-45431-9042D625 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:32:41 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.46]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5277820B14; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:32:39 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=smtpout; bh=5Xf25s0f2Oya4mjX9y2xS+ kKNDo=; b=a/Rq4fnn/HM8Yp9fayEMRUj/oLovfIRttvWs5PUoW4z951LcCM8u4j PxTKOsU8gObSnhIVSiL6svp28nlYVinCRW1ZbGpWYgYbzLuOS5ftFY/Jqnzke0W6 mX34r5CViTfNGuN5U3OkunWC7Syt0JY7OGcqyYozBbl+uXxV/A1vE= X-Sasl-enc: ikjsrxuB9ZyyCcnwECONN4Tn5Mc45Kos2x3zA1laVjJB 1382884359 Received: from mail.zerocue.com (unknown [67.200.53.250]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 235ABC00E83; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 10:32:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [172.17.0.84] (65-111-100-3.static.grandenetworks.net [65.111.100.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.zerocue.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A30E9120205; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:32:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <526D23F3.6010605@php.net> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 09:32:19 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Faulds , PHP internals References: <52607B40.8060808@ajf.me> In-Reply-To: <52607B40.8060808@ajf.me> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Constant Scalar Expressions (re-opening) From: cpriest@php.net (Clint Priest) On 10/17/2013 7:05 PM, Andrea Faulds wrote: > I have read through the previous mailing list discussion, and while I > will admit that, yes, this RFC does not allow some possibilities that > would be nice (like using constants in such expressions, for example), > I think it is still quite useful and an improvement on the status quo. > I agree, even without constants support it would be a big plus. I'm not sure everyone agrees that it should move forward without constants support though (and I would personally prefer them in as well, but not at the expense of pushing this feature out a year). > Thank you for your time.